Where to Retire: America's Best and Most Affordable Places
- Book Review,
by John Howells
Amazon.com
When the joints start to ache, the salary dwindles, and freedom is yours at last, it's time to reflect upon where you'd like to spend your retirement years. Your obligations are few and the world is your oyster. If you're approaching those golden years, John Howell's guide to retirement living is a boon. It's not about retirement communities, it's about the towns and cities of the United States--what they offer the senior citizen in terms of recreation, culture, health care, and lifestyle; what to expect from their weather; and how much it costs to live in them. Howells investigates the relative tax burdens of each state, looking at property taxes, sales taxes, and whether each taxes pensions and Social Security. He also ranks the cost of living for housing, groceries, and utilities; provides the daily high and low temperatures; and lists the amounts of rain and snowfall across the seasons. From Georgia's Valdosta (population 40,000 and nicknamed "Azalea City") to Washington's Bellingham (18 miles from Canada, views of the San Juan Islands to the west and Mount Baker to the east), Howells paints portraits of more than 150 communities and their surroundings. Doubling as a guide for exploratory vacations and a pointer for anyone looking for a better place to live, Howells's research answers all the relevant questions. --Stephanie Gold
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"This careful, detailed book should be required reading for any retiree considering moving to a better area. . . . You won't find a better retirement book than this one." --Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated real estate columnist
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"This careful, detailed book should be required reading for any retiree considering moving to a better area. . . . You won't find a better retirement book than this one." --Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated real estate columnist
Review
"This careful, detailed book should be required reading for any retiree considering moving to a better area. . . . You won't find a better retirement book than this one." --Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated real estate columnist
Book Description
Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Retirement guru John Howells provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement years. Readers are given guidance in the form of clear snapshots of life in hundreds of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating places to retire in the United States. The author helps the decision-making process by offering a list of items to consider when selecting the ideal community: safety, climate, housing availability; cultural and recreation opportunities in the area; social compatibility; affordability; medical care; distance from relatives and friends; transportation; and jobs and/or volunteer opportunities. This guide tells not how to retire, but where readers can retire happily.
From the Back Cover
Finding the ideal home base for your retirement years is a crucial decision. It is also a decision that can be confusing if you aren't sure where to look or what to look for.
In this well-researched and completely revised and updated guide, retirement guru John Howells gives the best advice not only on where to relocate for your retirement, but why you should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Where to Retire provides guidance in the form of clear snapshots of life in hundreds of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating places to retire in the United States.
Inside you will find carefully researched, up-to-the-minute information on: where you can live graciously, yet affordably; the ideal climate for your health and preference; recreation opportunities; social environments that suit your lifestyle; where to find the best health care.
About the Author
John Howells has been a Linotype operator, English teacher, silver miner, and a travel and feature writer. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.
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